Plinius's Discussions

In this country is some discussion if home schooling should be forbidden. I think that's a good idea - I abhor monocultures and a family that isolates the children is a monoculture. The quality of…Continue

"I read all your climate posts,Ruth, and I don't answer often because I feel I have nothing to add. But I appreciate your struggles very much and I do what I can of course. Can you still manage with all the enormous, hard and threatening thruths…"

"Thanks! It's quite shocking, really. I knew my hearing problems but only today realized how serious they are and how many years they've played a part in my life. I was well on the way to live in silence and I'm happy with the hearing…"

"Wow, my first hearing aids! I'm completely overwhelmed by sounds - sounds I haven't heard for years, I realize now. Sounds I never knew were there, like squeeks in the keyboard, soundless alarmclocks begin to tick, the cat's feet…"

"You're too kind, Joan, but to be of use to someone is often impossible. We all think of Patricia, who's in pain and on a horrible waiting list, but what can we do? Endlessly repeat our concern until the words have lost their meaning? Shake…"

I´ve always thought of partner and myself as an ordinary hetero couple, even if my attention often wandered to women. Perhaps we still are the ordinary couple, but things can suddenly change in unexpected ways, even for people of over sixty.

On Januari 1 of this year we were still drinking wine with a couple of neighbours when our neighbour put off her wig in the overheated room - she is still in transition. Rien, who is usually not very spontaneous put on her wig, and suddenly all…

I grew up in a fundie household in the 50s and 60s: parents, two brothers and myself. I quickly started to decode the things I was told. My mother said “we” when she meant herself and my father, my brothers said “we” when they meant “boys only”, and when my father said it, he meant himself, backed up by his god. It soon became clear that I was alone in my group.I couldn’t be in a group with the girls at school…

We've been busy this year. Brother-in-law fell on his head in January and contracted brain damage.. So we went to the hospital (the rest of the family is dead or not interested) and kept contact with the staff, took decisions, shared information and did whatever was necessary. Then we went to his apartment and found that his cat was phobic about people, and the apartment was totally neglected, dirty and full of broken stuff. We found a cat-nanny who accepted the bizarre situation and tried…

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Thank you! Let me say you're not too old for POLLY, Plinius. It's a fairly sophisticated construction for YA, but, in any case, the popularity of the genre among adults has been much remarked on and discussed in recent years. I've written about it on my blog. There are some good links. You may be interested:

Thank you for the kind offer, and friendship. I will gladly accept friendship, but my rejection of cell phones is only partly financial. I really detest the things!

The arrogance of people who use them in public places, and thoughtlessly disturb everyone around them with meaningless chatter, are a symptom of a sick (as in "terminally ill") society. When I was working in an electronics store 20+ years ago, I swore an oath on my cats that I would never own one of the pesky things. I did consider getting a very inexpensive "emergency" phone while I was commuting to work, but now that I can no longer drive a car, or own one, I don't need a phone to call the Auto Club.

Our land line may go out once a year, and I can live with that. and,if I stop breathing, I DO NOT WANT to be revived, anyway. I'm wearing a MedicAlert bracelet that advises EMTs NOT to resuscitate me EVER.

That may sound stupid, but I have heard too many stories of people who have had CPR performed on them, and "come back to life" permanently brain damaged. NOT moi!

But many thanks for the offer; that was a kind and very thoughtful thing to do. You just didn't know about my peculiar weirdness regarding cell phones. <3

l love you Chris but above all l would like to work with you on matters touching on the development of what both of us believe in,finally darling allow me to keep in a special place right inside my heart,,,,,,,,,,,,